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AR in Action was at MIT this week, and it was fantastic! John Werner served as host to a vast who’s who of tech, and the the presentations ranged from informative and entertaining to mind blowing. There were too many highlights to cover here, but a few of my favorite were Alan Kay’s explication of some issue’s with current technology, Steve Mann’s stunning taped performance, Ken Perlin’s presentation of his vision for interaction in the future, and of course, Digital Den’s friend Rus Gant’s perspective on uses of AR in museums. This is just a sample of the multitude of great talks.

There were also many interesting demos set up, and the one from Samsung Research about WebVR and Sketchfab was one the most likely to have a serious impact on directions in R & D at Digital Den.

Digital Den shared our “Intro. to AR and VR” exhibit at the VR@MIT open house on Monday, November 14th, and we had a ton of fun showing our demos as well as seeing the others.

Of course, that haptic glove still under development at MIT was particularly cool to see! The main purpose of the event was to promote the VR@MIT IAP course 6.s096: Mobile Virtual Reality Development Challenge that will be offered in January, so that’s something on the horizon we’ll be keeping an eye on!

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Digital Den will be doing AR and VR demos for VR@MIT on Monday, November 14th from 6:30-8:00 in Room 306 of Stratton Student Center. Check out their Facebook page for more information about VR@MIT and the event…VR@MIT Facebook